This, Baskerville's 1757 edition of Virgil, is the first book printed on wove paper, which was manufactured by James Whatman specifically to accommodate Baskerville's finely cut types

Some copies of this edition are found extra-illustrated with a set or partial set of plates from Ogilby's Virgil of 1654

Signature statement as given by Gaskell: pi℗ø a-b℗ø A-3H́þ

Error in pagination: 106-232 numbered 105-231

The first 28 gatherings (A-2E) are printed on unwatermarked wove paper, made in a single-faced wove mould. The remainder and all cancellantia are on an unwatermarked laid paper. Cf. Gaskell

For further information on this edition, see Gaskell, Philip. John Baskerville: a bibliography. (Cambridge: University Press, 1959) as well as: Straus, Ralph and Robert K. Dent. John Baskerville: a memoir. (Cambridge: University Press, 1907)

Gaskell, P. John Baskerville

Straus, Ralph and Dent, R.K. John Baskerville

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy BENTON 30.873.1 bound in ca. 19th-century olive goatskin double-panelled in gilt with floral tooling. Spine panelled and tooled in gilt. All text block edges are gilt. Displays the typographical peculiarities ascribed by Straus and Dent to the third of the seven states of the first edition and is extra-illustrated with 43 plates from Ogilby's Virgil (ESTC R18606), including a large foldout map of Italy and Greece tipped in before the title page. Armorial bookplate of the Dogmersfield Library. Leaf pi1 (blank) wanting. Housed in a brown pigskin box with title stamped in gilt on the spine.

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